From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Got a new toy last Wednesday, a (formerly owned) Google Chromebook.  After   
   losing a day thinking it would not connect to the network, I began studying it   
   more in depth yesterday, using my reading glasses, only to discover one of the   
   characters of the    
   wireless MAC address had been "seen" (without the reading glasses) as either a   
   B or an 8, but WITH glasses, the correction was spotted, made, and now the   
   system works online like a genie in a bottle!  The device only has 2 USB   
   ports, but other than that,    
   appears to be flying well, with the exception that accessing any kind of   
   "drive" or "folder" or "file' on the system is basically untenable.  There   
   *appears* to be around 8 GB of save space, but I'm still learning about that,   
   and for all intents and    
   purposes, hooking it up to an external mouse and keyboard makes for MUCH   
   faster / cleaner typing.  The right click function of the mouse is   
   super-obscure on the chromebook, as it doesn't actually have a physical right   
   click on the device.  If one wishes    
   to right click anything, one must use shift + the search key (in place of the   
   caps lock key) + the speaker up key (increase volume).  Even then, the right   
   click doesn't work in every case, where using an external mouse with a right   
   click does the trick.   
      
   OK, so what about dreams from last night?  all vague, very little recall,   
   however, the dreams from around 6 to 11 AM were all far more detailed / of   
   interest:   
      
   The prisoner:   
   The dreamer was as a prisoner (certainly felt like one) with people (at least   
   one person) in charge directing what one could or could not do.  Very much   
   like living under Shari'a, I suppose.  I have a rather foreboding concern that   
   the USA *could* end up    
   under Shari'a control IF Congress fails to override the electoral college on   
   January 6th.  Meanwhile, I'm hoping Trump's legal team can effect a change,   
   but still, there's always Congress....   
      
   The lecture?:   
   The NCIS LA character, Sam Hanna, played by LL COOL J, was giving a lecture   
   from a stage.  Note that in the dream, the person giving the lecture COULD   
   have been LL rather than the character SH.  This simply was not made clear in   
   the dream.  A foreign (   
   Arabic?) word was mentioned aloud, which seemed to have a translation as   
   "permitted wives", of which LL had over a half-dozen, closer to a dozen.  The   
   dreamer was viewing them all standing in a line, the view scan moving from   
   left to right, as the    
   dreamer attempted to count them, all wearing full cover burqas although at   
   least one of them was blue with sparkly fashion trim.   
      
   The job?:   
      
   The dreamer seemed to be involved in an all-day affair at a place similar to a   
   Wal*Mart, with various departments, and in at least one area, he removed his   
   coat and continued to either work or go about the location.  What was most   
   notable about the dream    
   was the sense of "time to go" along with a sense of "what happened to my   
   coat?"  The search for the coat was starting as the dream ended.   
      
   While I'm sure there were many more, evaporation has largely occurred, and I'm   
   just not in the mood to do digging into mental archaeology just to pull out a   
   nearly forgotten dream or two.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)